Curing Ground Hum

[gruffpuppy]

Any ideas on stopping ground hum on a bass without a metal bridge.
Its a wish bass so the volume and jack are both mounted to a metal plate.

Thanks

 

[Kickin'Fruit]

Any ideas on stopping ground hum on a bass without a metal bridge.
Its a wish bass so the volume and jack are both mounted to a metal plate.

Thanks

Hmm. You could try throwing the bass out.

 

[CentralCoastBass]

he's right, just toss it.

 

[gruffpuppy]

Hey thanks for the info, why even post.

M+

 

[SBassman]

Hey thanks for the info, why even post.

In most cases, you'd be right to feel like people weren't being very helpful. But in this case, cmon, if you have read the Wish dialog here, you just have to cut people some slack.
It's really hard Not to crack some Wish jokes.

You're triggering almost a Pavlovian response.

 

[pkr2]

Any ideas on stopping ground hum on a bass without a metal bridge.
Its a wish bass so the volume and jack are both mounted to a metal plate.

Thanks

Gruff, it looks like the holes where the strings go through the body might be pretty close to the control cavity. If you can figure some way to connect the string ends together where they come out the back of the bass with a conducter that grounds all the strings together and then get creative in hiding a short connecting wire going into the control cavity to the common ground point, you will have done the same thing that grounding the bridge does.

Sorry for the run on sentence.

 

[gruffpuppy]

It's really hard Not to crack some Wish jokes.

You're triggering almost a Pavlovian response.

Yes I agree but yet being creative people you would think some might not . . .well as S.P. Martini put it "Follow the heard be another cow"

Thanks for the idea pkr2

Now I guess to be another cow I will go an bash the owners of a bongo or a mij jazz.

 

[SBassman]

Yes I agree but yet being creative people you would think some might not . . .well as S.P. Martini put it "Follow the heard be another cow"

Thanks for the idea pkr2

Now I guess to be another cow I will go an bash the owners of a bongo or a mij jazz.

Nobody means any harm. Just a coupla - cheap - laughs.

Seriously, I hope you solve the hum problem. They are frustrating and fun-and-tone-sucking for sure.

 

[gruffpuppy]

Not to get off of the path but SBassman how do you like you bass? Would it stand being throw in the back of a hot van an forgotten or do yo think it is more fragile. I am looking for a small at work bass.

 

[SBassman]

Not to get off of the path but SBassman how do you like you bass? Would it stand being throw in the back of a hot van an forgotten or do yo think it is more fragile. I am looking for a small at work bass.

I answered in our Sinsonido thread:

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?p=3122176#post3122176